Background The recent three-part Lancet series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) argued that the displacement of traditional diets by UPFs is a major driver of poor diet quality and diet-related chronic...

Die Cochrane-Stiftung, die seit Jahren die Nutzen medizinischer Therapien untersucht, soll künftig nicht mehr staatlich gefördert werden.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 21 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02602-5Is a 50% replication rate too high, too low or just right? We need a target replication rate to answer this question. Here, I evaluate two potential target rates, the ‘optimal’ replication rate and the ‘expected’ replication rate, and I call for an educational intervention to better appreciate their limitations.

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We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the third Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta-Research Symposium! In...

Within a meta-analytic framework, validating surrogate endpoints traditionally requires individual patient data (IPD) from multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This is rarely feasible in rare...

A Nature Index analysis tracked first and last authorships to see which journals struggled to improve female representation over the past decade.

For the past year, bioRxiv and medRxiv authors have been able to include funder information with their preprints. This can be entered in a dedicated field during the submission process, using Research...

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Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Nature, Published online: 16 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02175-3 Project on peer-review platform Pubpeer aims to make replication studies more visible.

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

Empirical conclusions can depend on the many individual choices researchers make when analyzing data. Multiverse-style analyses address this by computing results across a set of specifications rather ...

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